Boris Kangun edit
Boris Kangun is fit to carry the title "an officer and a gentleman". A Russian Jew by birth, he was born Boris Kangun Abramowitz in the year 1919 in the city of Rowno [1]. Boris served as a young officer in the Red Army during WW2 in the Battle of Stalingrad and also fought in other occupied Russian cities.. He was a fighter for the rebirth of the State of Israel, which he helped build from the ashes of post war Europe. And, he helped give back pride to the Jewish people.
After the war, Boris moved to Vienna, where he joined MOSSAD and became instrumental in co-ordinating the Exodus of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Holocaust survivors. He helped them flee from European camps and ghettos and re-patriated them to Israel. By providing immigration papers for countless Jewish people, who passed through Austria to get to shipping ports for their journey "home", Kangun completed his mission with the utmost dedication, devotion and love for his people - carrying out his tasks with great humility.
During this time, he married his wife, Bella, who was one of the refugees. They went on to have two sons, Amir and Haim, who Bella described as, "our revenge at the Nazi's". Bella is the sister of the famous Nazi Hunter, Tuviah Friedman and is herself a survivor of Auschwitz. She worked as a Typhus Nurse at the camp. Her brother, Tuvia, founded and headed the Jewish Documentation Centre in Haifa and was responsible for bringing various Nazi criminals to justice after the war. Friedman also played a vital role in the capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann, who was the top aide of Hitler.
The story of this brave and oustanding human-being, Boris Kangun, has been written by Moses Miesels and was published in 2009. It can be seen in the IDF Museum in Tel Aviv.
A hero of Boris' was Ambassador Asher Ben-Natan [2]. Whom he regarded as a "symbol of bravery for the Jewish people" and "leading figure in the return of the Jews to their homeland". Boris' work has also been recognised by many great people, such as Shimon Peres,Benjamin Netanyahu and head of the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin.
More information here [3]
.Marnie 21:13, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
.Marnie 07:46, 8 March 2010 (UTC)